The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-05-26

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About the year 1912 a Frenchman Il
named LeMonesaco made a tour Oh :
the Southern States lccturin9 on 'N' :
poleon's Campaigns" and wine 't .
Selma, Ala, he told gentleman rom ,
North Carolina in private con'er9dIioii :
that he :,
KNEW THAT NEY ESCAPED !
execution and that he was then III T
America. The Carolinian was then
about twenty-five years old ana hdu
nrcvious to that Deen one OF Ney S !
studcr.-5. I
Some people may think that II the +
old teacher was the Marshal he would ;
have gone to Bordentown, n. J., and
there have made his home with joseph
Bonaparte, who was living there IN me
stvIe as a refugee from the throne OF
Snain. To these it may be SAID that
if was through the efforts of Ney and
other Marshals that Spain was subdued
before Napoleon placed his brother On
the throne and then as Joseph proved
50 weak minded that be could not re-
tain the kingdom he was held IN con-
tempt by all those who fought and Sc
cured for him that high position, and
| News soldierly conduct and bravery
would not allow him to submit 10
charity from a man for whom he had
no respect.
Some may also think that Ney would
not have been content with making
known his identity to only few OF MS
best friends in this free country ana
especially vile SO far in the INTERIOR
ST least three hundred miles from any
5 great thoroughtare, and almost under
: the shadow of the Blue Ridge, the
y dividing line between advanced CIVIL
cation and the home of Indians ana
t wild animals; but it must be remem-
u bered that he was a brave man and
II man of great honor, and ne was con-
tent to endure the privatlOns OF quiet
life rather than create notoriety, as he
,e could easily have done, and thus per
1e haps bring trouble upon the friends
+ who planned and effected his escape.
m When the first class graduated at
IN Davidson College, in 1870, the trus-
e tees appointed a committee to visit
ph Ney and get him to write form tor
he Diploma. He wrote it in few MIN
O. utes, and it is said the same form Is
Is, used to this day, though the college
has grown to be one among the DeS
in the South.
1t was during school one day wher
Ney received newspaper announcing
the death Of young Napoleon. III
threw the paper down and seemed t
90 almost wild with grief. He trne'
to Young man in the school ant
ed, asked if he could eat the andlrons L
the fireplace. When he was answer
in the negative he said there was
much harder task before him than tina
He adjourned school, destroyed a gres
deal of his manuscript and papers an
-, acted so much like crazy man thu
an' he was watched every night until h
~ ~ friends finally induced him to que
A down and open school aagln.
ned HIS MANUSCRIPTS.
lice New moved from Iredell to Rowa
hat county a few years before his deaf
one and only short time before leavlr
'out he said to young man in lrede
ted who was one OF his fayorite SUDDEN
in and VINO had often assisted him IN +
eral schools: 81 am getting old and
who have to die before a great viii
saw When YOU hear of my death / wa
en- YOU to come at once and take char
of this box of manuscript. lol undt
on stand my shorthand writing bet
ne than any body else. Write this all c
ling and let the people know what 1t
boys There is something here that will
the tonish the world" The young m
stick promised to do as he requested, but
E of the facilities for hearing news IN thu
the DAYS were very limited, it SO happen
here that Ney had been dead some ii
him. before this gentleman heard it.
hood soon as the news reached him, howev
one he went in fulhllment of the promi
egro but when he reached the place VIII
him Ney died all documents and papers OF
IN kinds were gone. The gentleman "
they whom it was left says that a man ca
they to his house soon after Neys de
ned: and represented himself as being
the member of the New York Histor
: of Society and urged him for these W
be- ings, stating that his society wo
Ic of have the short hand writing transla
and published, and would give
and five hundred copies of the books
very distribute among Ney's friends,
while under these representations he tur
nent- it all over to the stranger, and nell
inva- has been heard from since. 1t was
cons, terward learned that the man was
r the a member of the society, and that
manuscript never came in posses
short of that society. Whether this i'm
stiga- tor was friend of the Ney fan
from shadowing the old man to his d.
states. with the purpose of SURPRISING
upils writings, or employed by the Ere
is he Government to purloin all these v
and ten evidences, or what disposition
l. A made Of the manuscript, or what r
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